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Open to the publicThe Menger is an operating hotel; the lobby, bar and restaurants are open to the public. Guest floors and rooms are for registered guests, so do not enter them without permission.
The Menger Hotel is a 316-room hotel on Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, open since 1859 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 1, 2. MySA collected accounts from guests, bar staff and tour guides, among them sightings attributed to Sallie White, a chambermaid who died at the hotel in 1876 after being shot by her common-law husband 3. A bartender told the paper about glasses shaking and doors slamming, and a 2021 photograph taken behind the Menger Bar showed an unidentified figure in the mirror 3. Visitors commonly describe a maid in an old-fashioned uniform who disappears in the halls and does not answer when spoken to, figures in the bar mirror, and doors and glassware moving with no one near them.
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MySA reported that front desk staff occasionally take calls from guests who saw a maid in an old-fashioned uniform in the hallways; she does not answer when spoken to and then is no longer there. Tour guide Lauren Swartz and hotel staff connect the sightings to Sallie White, a chambermaid who died at the hotel in 1876.
Apparition
MySA reported that bartender Justin Hernandez had experienced glasses shaking and doors slamming in the Menger Bar, and that a 2021 photograph taken by Paul Keinrath showed an unidentified figure in the mirror behind the bar. The article notes the image could be a trick of the light.
Apparition · Doors opening or closing · Objects moved · Photo or video anomaly
MySA quoted a Texas Monthly column by musician Kinky Friedman describing a 3 a.m. encounter in his room with a young woman wearing a bandanna at the foot of his bed, who moved across the room and vanished into the wall. Staff told him the next morning that it was Sallie.
Apparition
MySA's reporter walked the lobby and the second-floor landings and noted feeling nothing unusual, describing the atmosphere as interest rather than fear. The article also reports that some people say Theodore Roosevelt still passes through the bar, and that a suite where Captain Richard King died is among the rooms guests ask for by name.
Apparition · Felt presence
MySA reported that tour guide Lauren Swartz found a Sisters Grimm sign that had gone missing from inside the hotel lying face down in a hallway, and that security footage showed the sign present in one moment and gone the next.
Objects moved · Photo or video anomaly
The history · San Antonio, Texas
The Menger Hotel is a 316-room hotel on Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, open since 1859 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 1, 2. MySA collected accounts from guests, bar staff and tour guides, among them sightings attributed to Sallie White, a chambermaid who died at the hotel in 1876 after being shot by her common-law husband 3. A bartender told the paper about glasses shaking and doors slamming, and a 2021 photograph taken behind the Menger Bar showed an unidentified figure in the mirror 3. Visitors commonly describe a maid in an old-fashioned uniform who disappears in the halls and does not answer when spoken to, figures in the bar mirror, and doors and glassware moving with no one near them.
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